You saying Biden should have closed borders when Delta strain was being found in other countries as NZ did? I agree.
Biden did not OPEN any borders.
Another manufactured lie.
In fact, he even opted to return to the Remain-in-Mexico policy.
New Zealand closed off entry back in February 2020, when the ORIGINAL COVID virus became an issue, not when Delta appeared.
In fact, they were one of the very first republics to take
ANY action re COVID.
The first New Zealand COVID-19 case was diagnosed February 26, around the same time that global agencies began reporting the SARS-CoV-2 infection was behaving more like a severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) than an influenza—giving investigators hope for containment.
Because of lacking testing and contact-tracing capability in mid-March, the country’s leaders made a dramatic and critical switch in strategy: from mitigating the disease, to eliminating it.
A countrywide lockdown—Alert Level 4—was implemented on March 26.
“After 5 weeks, and with the number of new cases declining rapidly, New Zealand moved to Alert Level 3 for an additional 2 weeks, resulting in a total of 7 weeks of what was essentially a national stay-at-home order,” authors wrote.
It was in early May that the last identified COVID-19 case was observed in the community; with the patient placed in isolated, the country had ended its community spread. On June 8, the New Zealand moved to Alert Level 1—in 103 days, they had declared the pandemic over in the country.
New Zealand’s efforts to combat the spread of the virus were orchestrated using an all-of-government approach. Led by an all-of-government controller, the nation’s Ministry of Health and the national emergency response infrastructure effected a coordinated governmental effort that included all ministries and government agencies. The all-of-government approach was organized along specific workstreams, allowing the government to mount effective responses for disease treatment, border controls, enforcement of physical distancing mandates, social welfare and worker supports, economic stimulus, supply chain management, trade, and foreign relations. While the New Zealand government’s policy response to COVID-19
was both stringent and comprehensive, the government was able to secure popular support for these efforts through an effective and transparent effort to keep the public informed about the pandemic and the response.
New Zealand eliminated COVID-19 last year and had been largely virus-free, barring a small number of cases in February, until the latest outbreak of the Delta variant erupted in August, prompting Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to order a nationwide lockdown.
Ardern's tough lockdowns and international border closure in March 2020 helped rein in COVID-19, but the government now faces questions over a delayed vaccine rollout.
Bloomfield said the aim now was to try and get on top of the outbreak while also ramping up vaccination rates.
"Get that vaccination rate up over 90%...that's absolutely our new means whereby we will be able to get back to the freedoms we had," he said.
---There's been less than three thousand COVID deaths in New Zealand.
